The CFPB sued Sprint on Wednesday, claiming it allowed illegal charges onto customer's cell phone bills. The case is likely to be a test of whether the agency has the power to oversee telecommunications firms.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing a Dallas company that the agency says misled customers into signing up for a "sham" credit card.

Small banks and credit unions are looking to a lab hosted by NCR's Digital Insight to try out new tech like biometrics and beacons in an effort to keep up with their larger competitors.

South Shore Bank in South Weymouth, Mass., has lined up its next president and chief executive.

Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., is expanding its health care practice banking group for the second time this year.

State Street in Boston has split the positions of president and chief executive.

The Texas Attorney General's office is investigating an alleged identity theft ring where the callers sometimes are claiming to be collecting on behalf of a government agency.

Bank of America has come under fire from shareholding charities that want the chairman and chief executive roles separated again. Here's a look at B of A's governance, focusing on the 13 outside directors and their backgrounds.

Sprint Corp. likely faces a record $105 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission over unauthorized text messages and other services charged on customers' cell phone bills.

The Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hosted a “Debt Collection and the Latino Community Roundtable” in October to examine how collection and credit reporting impact Latino consumers - particularly those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP).

The U.S. credit card industry continues its slow rebound from the financial crisis. In the second quarter, the number of open accounts rose by 24 million from a year earlier, while purchase volumes also increased significantly, according to a new report issued Wednesday by the American Bankers Association.

Where there's a will, there's a way for Chris Bauer, who guided Anchor through bankruptcy as a means of recapitalizing the once-struggling Wisconsin company. The turnaround was punctuated with the company's October IPO.

WASHINGTON — More than two dozen Senate lawmakers signed a letter this week that urges the Federal Housing Finance Agency to drop its proposal to tighten Federal Home Loan Bank membership rules.

George Engelke Jr., former chairman, president, and chief executive of the Astoria Financial in Lake Success, N.Y., has died.

Integrity Bancshares in Camp Hill, Pa., first approached S&T Bancorp about an $8 million loan before eventually agreeing to sell itself to the Indiana, Pa., company.

The Defense Department's decision to bar service members from using the military's discretionary allotment system will reduce Farmers Capital's annual process revenue by nearly $1.5 million.

One big question in the debate over regulating cryptocurrencies is whether to apply existing rules to these new technologies or craft new ones. A state regulators' trade group recognizes that there may be no one right answer.

The $1 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it repurchased its remaining shares of preferred stock issued to the Treasury Department during the financial crisis.

PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh has tapped an executive to become its director of community affairs and president of the PNC Foundation.

TransUnion’s annual auto loan forecast calls for auto loan debt to continue to rise to $18,244 at the end of 2015. This would mark 19 consecutive quarters of increases.